Volume 27, Issue 1 of Cider Press Review, April 2025
In the first issue of Volume 27, as we emerge from winter, transforming with lighter days, we wander through the expansiveness of life and the wounding of living. Kathryn Petruccelli embraces herself in “Who Has Taught Me to Love This Body?” with “I’m filled to be in a body, that I have a body / to fill, and for a moment, all the meadows, / every ocean is mine.” In “Morality for Beginners,” Elizabeth Rae Bulmer recalls her roots: “It may sound like the song / you heard in your head, as a child—gush of ocean / swallowing shores of silky sand—this is your ancestors / singing it back, to remind you where you began.” In “To the Morrow,” Lydia Falls reimagines the expanse of her mother’s body: “she spills beyond our skyline, / graceful as she merges / with the earth.”
Additional to the poets highlighted above, Vol. 27, Issue 1 includes poems by Cammy Thomas, Michael J. Galko, Jennifer Barber, Mike Lewis-Beck, Gretchen Bartels-Ray, John Hyland, Josh Jacobs, Melanie McCabe, Stacy Boe Miller, Clyde Kessler, Marcella Remund, Mermer Blakeslee, Kaisa Ullsvik Miller, Margot Wizansky, Elizabeth Coleman, Susanna Rich, and Siobhan Jean-Charles.
You’ll also find Susan Azar Porterfield’s review of Andrea Hollander’s and Now, Nowhere But Here and Basia Wilson’s review of Kathy Kremins’s The Curve of Things.
Enjoy the day,
Abigail Card, Managing Editor
